Corporate Express Agrees
To Buy United TransNet

BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Corporate Express Inc. agreed to acquire United TransNet Inc. for about $146 million in stock, in yet another expansion in the same-day local-delivery business.

The supplier of office products said its acquisition of the nation's second largest same-day delivery service will give it a presence in that business in 90 of the nation's 100 largest markets. In March, Corporate Express acquired U.S. Delivery Systems Inc., the leading provider of same-day local delivery services, for $410 million in stock....